Description
Carrowkeel a townland meaning the narrow
quarter has in its location a wonderful Augustinian
Friary, founded in 1457. Pope Callitus the third,
granted permission to a Hugh O'Malley, an
Augustinian friar from the house of Corpus Christi
at Banada in Co. Sligo, to establish the church and
friary here.

The local chieftain of the area Thady O'Malley
reputedly granted the lands at Murrisk for the
church's foundation. Its not known whether the two
were related but it is curious that both carried
the same family name. The Abbey now in ruins is
L-shaped, in two parts consisting of the church to
the south and the domestic buildings running north
from the choir wall. The east wall has a
particularly fine five-light window.